Hey everyone, my name is Murphy and welcome to my blog. I'm a 21 year old Artist living in Australia. My blog is like my online visual diary where I share all that inspires me. I love to blog about art, photography, fashion, vintage goods, crafts, and as well as my own personal style and artworks.
Thank you for visiting.

Monday, September 17, 2012

I wanted to share today just some amazing that have inspired me the past week from a recent photographer I have discovered. Sarah Ann Wright is a freelance photographer in the UK who takes such amazingly beautiful portraits. I seriously couldn't pick which one was my favourite out of these few photos, and that's what you hope for when you discover a new photographer or artist. Be sure to check out her website and her flickr account to see the rest of her work. In the meantime, I hope that these photos served as source inspiration to you guys today :)

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

One of m favourite things to do as a kid was to play with Lego. We had all these different sets from Harry Potter to Star Wars. So you can imagine my excitement when I saw that their had combined Lego with some of the world's most amazing architectural structures. Architecture has always been something that I admired greatly so to be able to build my own Guggenhiem museum and have it in my room is pretty cool. I want to desperately get the one of the Sydney Opera House as it is the most beautiful building in the world in my opinion. Some of them are a bit pricey, but come on.. its Lego!

You can check out the rest of the Architecture series and find out more about it on Lego's website here. Now I don't know about you guys but I know what I am asking for Christmas :)

Monday, September 10, 2012

Like Spring!

Finally down here in Australia Spring has finally caught up to us and it starting to warm up. I'm looking forward to Spring and everything that comes with it. Lighter layers, bright colours, more sunshine
hours, pretty flowers, bare legs, iced drinks and many adventures. Even though I love winter for it's cozy weather and amazing wardobe, I love this time of year!

I found these photo's the other day and they just make me so giddy with excitement and joy that I can't wait to gather up a bunch of flowers and sit them in my room. I love the sweet peas but roses will always be my all time favourite flowers. Does anyone else have a flower flower?

Friday, September 7, 2012

Yes I am bringing back another one of my favourite meme's, Pinterest Friday! If you feel like playing along just share a few of your favourite pins
from the week revolving around the same topic. Also make sure that you
share the link to the actual pin itself so people can find where it came
from.

This weeks Pinterest Friday I wanted to share some of the amazing pieces of furniture that I have found, which I would like to have in my future home.A lot the pieces that I fall for are kind of 50's / 60's inspired or retro furniture, yes I have expensive taste :)

If you feel like joining in next week be sure to leave a link here for me to check it out. You can also find me on Pinterest here.

Thursday, September 6, 2012

If any of you live in or near Sydney then I would like to think that you have taken advantage of seeing these years Beinnale of Sydney. If you haven't or have no idea qhat I am talking about then listen up. The Beinnale is this hugearts event in Sydney that shows all these amazing artworks in these different venues. The theme surrounding this years was 'all our relations', which is about our relationship to the earth and also about making the works interactive with audiences.

My favourite venue that its held at is on Cockatoo Island, which use to be an old ship yard and prison. Not only did it have some of the best works there, it's also so amazing to wonder around the island and soak up its history. The photo's above are some photo's I took of a few of my favorite works. The one on the bottom left is by far my favourite, it was this like open room with all these wind chimes. It was just simply beautiful to sit there as I never realised how relaxing wind chimes can be. So if you have the time I definitely recommend to go and check it out for yourself. Below I put the links to the Beinnale website and to the artists pages.

Monday, September 3, 2012

In my opinion it always feels comforting to return to something that you love, which is one of the reasons that I returned back to the blogging world. It is also the reason why I am bringing back Much Love Monday's. So here are some of the things that I have been loving:

Blogging - Even though I enjoyed my break from the blog I did miss being here. I can't get over how even just after one post I am already getting so much joy out of it.

Heart sing by BIGkids - This is a song I discovered the other day and I have had on repeat since. I definitely recommend everyone to go and listen to it. The music video for it is also really cool.

My iPad - Yes... I have recently brought myself an iPad 2 and it has literally became my baby. I was a bit worried that I wouldn't use it a lot and then I would of regretted buying it, but thankfully that hasn't been the case. I mostly take it to uni to do work on and use it for instagram.

Hello again everyone! I haven't even been back for a day and I am already posting on here twice. Even though I have been away from the blog I have still finding great sources of inspiration from photographers and artists. Recently I have discovered the LA photographer, Alexandra Bellissimo. She does these amazing conceptual surrealist collage works where she creates these half-human, half-nature people. Her works looks at the relationship between nature and the human body and how we feel towards it. I almost thought that they were paintings at first, but yeah aren't the ust simply beautiful. They are really create images that are beautifully shot with these great colour schemes and tones.

She has recently taken my interest as I am exploring a similar concept of people's relationship with nature. So she has been really interesting to look at as a source of inspiration for it. I'll be sure to share with you photo's of my works in progress hopefully soon. In the mean time be sure to check out Alexandra Bellissimo website and her blog as well.

Again I just wanted to say that I am really excited to be back to blogging and a huge thanks to everyone who has stuck around :)

Yes! After the long
year that I have had with life taking over I have finally decided to come back
to my long lost love of blogging. I hope not too many people have missed me,
but if you have then be excited to see Girl holding a paintbrush up and running
again. I hope to be posting on a regular basis as soonas I get back into the swing of things.

So it’s lovely to be
back here and be sure to check out my first official post later today :)